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Technology Stocks : Year 2000 (Y2K) Embedded Systems & Infrastructure Problem -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (303)	4/2/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 618

Embedded systems:' The level of awareness is equivalent to that for mainframe systems two years ago' 'Wednesday 25 March Year 2000 expert claims utilities are heading for trouble Manufacturing firms and utilities are four times more likely to face problems with millennium compliance in embedded systems than in their mainframe applications. Dave Hall, a member of the US Society of Information Management's year 2000 working party, believes the embedded chip issue is still underestimated by industry. "The level of awareness is equivalent to that for mainframe systems two years ago," he said. Hall has been consolidating data on the millennium problems affecting embedded systems for three years. "If the present trends continue, then parts of the water, power and telecoms infrastructures are going to go down," he said. "Every test that I have seen on a power plant so far has resulted in the operation shutting down within a minute. "I have seen tests on four different water treatment plants, and each time they have either stopped purifying water or dumped raw sewage on to beaches when the tide was out," he added. An estimate by Gartner Group said 2% of embedded chips will present problems. computerweekly.co.uk